Likely the first thing Hovde has ever written that is spot-on

       O "guest columnist" Elizabeth Hovde has a very poor batting average for worthwhile opinion pieces. She seems like a decent enough person individually but her position of privilege and fealty to supposedly "conservative" positions regularly leads her to write absurd things in defense of the indefensible.  She is so busy trying to police the morals of the poor that she pays no mind to the the moral delinquency and destruction in what the 1% are doing to destroy America and most of the people in it, including folks like Hovde.

But, credit where credit is due, she knocks this one out of the park.  Amazing what a little personal experience with a health crisis or injury can do.

http://www.oregonlive.com/hovde/index.ssf/2014/04/elizabeth_hovde_take_time_to_c.html

Advanced directives -- everyone should do one as part of graduating from high school or GED class, and then sign it on their 18th birthday if they couldn't before.  And then review it annually each birthday thereafter.